0

I've got Ubuntu Studio 16.04 with xfce4. My goal is to run festival, the speech generator, whenever I log in into the graphical desktop environment.

Making festival say something in the terminal works perfectly, for instance:

echo "got milk" | festival --tts

To achieve this, I tried this way:

opened the session and startup program, selected Application Autostart and clicked onto add. There I can input a command, which should start each time I log into xfce4, so they say.

enter image description here

However, when I log in into xfce4, no one is speaking.

sharkant
  • 1,361
  • 1
    You probably need to replace festival by /usr/bin/festival as the shell that executes the startup commands doesn't have a proper $PATH environment. Also, adding the command to ~/.bashrc should work as well. – Jos Apr 28 '17 at 19:27
  • I have tried to put the whole path /usr/bin/festival, but it still will not work. For the second, I cant find .bashrc in ~ – sharkant Apr 28 '17 at 20:00
  • 1
    The full path name may be something other than /usr/bin/festival - check what it should be with which festival. As for .bashrc it is a hidden file - if you use Nautilus to find it, press Ctrl + H to view hidden files as well. – Jos Apr 28 '17 at 20:04
  • thanks, I understand, though the dot is not big, the bashrc still can hide behind it – sharkant Apr 28 '17 at 20:10

0 Answers0